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Look, people, I__ announcing a new rule. It__ going to seem harsh. But it__ necessary.__he word __arsh_ got almost everyone__ attention.__e can__ have people sitting around all day playing Wii and watching DVDs. We need people to start working in the fields. So, here__ the thing: everyone age seven or older has to put in three days per week picking fruit or veggies. Then Albert__ going to work with the whole question of freezing stuff that can be frozen, or otherwise preserving stuff.__here was dead silence. And blank stares.__hat I__ saying is, tomorrow we__l have two school buses ready to go. They hold about fifty kids each and we need to have them mostly full because we__e going to pick some melons and it__ a lot of work.__ore blank stares.__kay, let me make this simple: get your brothers and sisters and friends and anyone over age seven and be in the square tomorrow morning at eight o__lock.___ut how about_?___ust be there,_ Sam said with less firmness than he__ intended. His frustration was draining away now, replaced by weariness and depression.__ust be there,_ someone mimicked in a singsong voice.Sam closed his eyes, and for a moment he almost seemed to be asleep. Then he opened them again and managed a bleak smile. __lease. Be there,_ he said quietly.He walked down the three steps and out of the church, knowing in his heart that few would answer his call.

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I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.

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I pulled the sheet off their faces. Their faces were black with coal dust and didn't look like anything was wrong with them except they were dirty. The both of them had smiles on their faces. I thought maybe one of them had told a joke just before they died and, pain and all, they both laughed and ended up with a smile. Probably not true but but it made me feel good to think about it like that, and when the Sister came in I asked her if I could clean their faces and she said, "no, certainly not!" but I said, "ah, c'mon, it's me brother n' father, I want to," and she looked at me and looked at me, and at last she said, "of course, of course, I'll get some soap and water."When the nun came back she helped me. Not doing it, but more like showing me how, and taking to me, saying things like "this is a very handsome man" and "you must have been proud of your brother" when I told her how Charlie Dave would fight for me, and "you're lucky you have another brother"; of course I was, but he was younger and might change, but she talked to me and made it all seem normal, the two of us standing over a dead face and cleaning the grit away. The only other thing I remember a nun ever saying to me was, "Mairead, you get to your seat, this minute!

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Sheldon Currie

The Glace Bay Miners' Museum: The Novel

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Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe."Worn and old, just like Viv," he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak.